Dean Whitlock said August 1 that he is "90 per cent sure" that there will be a bus at 6 p.m. daily from Dillon Field House to Radcliffe. He said the Administration is considering a second bus, a continuous evening shuttle, if a University's department can be persuaded to put up the necessary $40,000 a year.
One particularly vocal group of freshmen athletes assigned to live in Radcliffe against their will had said that they would refuse to live at Radcliffe unless a bus were instituted.
Gallo Wine Down the Drain
Harvard athletes were not the only ones who were threatening and bargaining this summer. Strikes and boycotts marked almost every week of the long hot summer. The liberal/radical checklist of boycotted products increased this summer by two items, bringing the total to six.
In the wake of the allegations that Portuguese soldiers massacred Mozambique villagers last December, the African Liberation Support Committee announced July 27 a boycott of all Portuguese products. That decision added freeze dried coffee to the list of untouchables for Cambridge liberals. The farm workers' boycott of Gallo wine added a second item to the list.
"Congratulations," Says Bok. "Why?" Asks SDS
Eight members of Harvard/Radcliffe SDS confronted President Bok on August 8 to seek an explanation for what they called a "note of congratulations" he sent to Richard J. Herrnstein, professor of Psychology.
SDS questioned Bok in front of Massachusetts Hall in several attempts to give him a letter condemning the "hand-written note of congratulations."
The SDS letter cited the July issue of Science Magazine, which included an article which described the contraversy surrounding Herrnstein 's views on the inheritability of intelligence, and said that Herrnstein described Bok's note as evidence of support of Herrnstein's theories.
Hunt Hall Becomes Hunt Hole
While the University Administration pondered and juggled figures, other University-related actions went on without a hitch. Construction at various sites began on schedule and, despite the efforts of some students and faculty to "Save Hunt Hall," destruction went on as scheduled too.